Author: Mrs Dick

Good morning everyone.

How are you getting on with your grid so far?

Remember that the sumdog challenge for ‘number words’ finishes at 3pm today. Lots of you have already finished or are close to finishing the challenge – well done!

Learning Grid

In the Health and Wellbeing part of the grid you were asked to try a new food. 

Have you managed to have a go at this? 

Sometimes when we try something new for the first time we can be very unsure if we like it or not, it can take trying a food more than three times to know for sure if you like it.

Two years ago I tried olives for the first time when I was on holiday, they have quite an unusual salty taste and I really was not sure I liked them.  However I then tried them again and I was really surprised that I found that I quite liked them.  Now olives are a real favourite of mine!

Numeracy

Our numeracy learning this week is all about the numbers up to 20 and/or up to 100.

Learning our numbers to 100 is very useful as we use numbers every day in our lives.  Some board games need you to know your numbers.  One example is snakes and ladders.  If you have this game at home challenge someone to play with you.

If you don’t have this game use this link here to download a snakes and ladders board (or you could even try to make your own board – remember it doesn’t need to go all the way to 100 if you cannot fit that in on a page).

Snakes and Ladders Board Game

Literacy

Have you listened to the story “Christopher Nibble” yet?  Try to use the wordboost words today when you are chatting with people.  Ask someone to help you keep a score of how many times you manage to use one of the boost words.  Can you beat 5?

Here is the video link for ‘Christopher Nibble’ if you haven’t managed to listen to it yet. The boost words you are listening for are – deep, imagine, protect, borrow.

Have fun!

Mrs Currie

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

Home Learning Grid

Please remember how important it is to take breaks and relax during a day when working in the house.  Drawing can be a very relaxing activity. Here is a drawing you can try at home:

If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below. We will try to answer your question as soon as we are able to.

Numeracy

Your Sumdog challenge focuses on number words.

If you would like extra practise have a go at this .

Write down the digit and matching number word in these cookie jars. This will help you to practise for your Sumdog challenge.

Literacy

We are almost at the end of our first week back. How are you getting on with re-telling a story to someone at home? Remember to speak about characters, setting, the beginning, middle and end. Mrs Docherty posted the image below in a previous blog post. Use it to help you with re-telling your story.

 

Mrs Currie

Good morning, P2!

What did you do yesterday evening? In the early evening I was outside in the garden planting some seeds.  Have you ever planted seeds before.  I’m growing a selection of wild flowers.  I’ll keep you informed of their progress over the coming weeks.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on using your feet as a unit of measurement? Can you estimate/ guess one room in your house that is bigger and one that is smaller than your room? See if you were right by using your feet to measure those rooms. Here are the links needed for this week’s learning for quick access:

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below. We will try to answer your question as soon as we are able to

Literacy

Here is a link to a story that is all about rhyming words. Can you remember what rhyming words are? Click the link below to watch the short video explanation on rhyming words and then read the story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9vbkqt/articles/z62wgwx

Numeracy

Try this fun game focused on division. You have to divide all of the bones equally between all of the puppies.

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html

If you want to play more games to help you with division, take a look at the website suggestions list and find some more games!

Mrs Currie

Good morning,

Another day of fun and learning lies ahead. What will you do today?  Yesterday early evening I was outside in my garden, even though it was very windy, planting some seeds to grow corn flowers as well as other wild flowers.  Have you ever planted some seeds.  I’ll keep you informed of their progress over the coming weeks.

Here is the link for the grid below that was posted yesterday, this just saves you from having to scroll down to find it.

Learning Grid Week 3 (1)

If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below. We will try to answer your question as soon as we are able to.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with the alien story? I finished my story yesterday but I think I made a few mistakes again. Can you spot them?

A little green alien wif a fluffy tail went on A rocket. (2 mistakes)

the rocket was fast and took the alien to the beach. (1 mistake)

At the beach thi alien went in the sea for a swim (2 mistakes)

“i love the beach”, said the alien, hee didn’t want to go back to the moon. (2 mistakes)

Literacy

On a device find the ‘phonics bloom website’. At the top of the page select the button ‘phonics games’.

I would suggest picking phase 2.

When you are playing games you may wish to select phase 1 if some sounds are too tricky or select phase 3 if you need more of a challenge.

There are lots of different free phonics games for you to play – I think that the game ‘match cards’ is a great game too. It will develop your reading skills. The link below will take you straight to the ‘match cards’ game.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/match-cards?phase=2

Numeracy

Watch the videos below to practise counting in 10’s:

Have a go at counting in 10’s at home. I have attached a counting in 10’s worksheet below for you to have a go at too. Be careful because some of the counting sequences go from smallest to largest and others largest to smallest.

Counting in 10’s

Good luck!

Mrs Currie

Good morning everyone!

I hope your first day back of home learning went well for you.

Home Learning Grid

I had a little go at sorting some toys into push and pull  categories, here are some of my ideas:

Literacy

It is important when you write a lowercase letter j that it hangs below the line.  Look at this image showing both the capital and lowercase j.  In your jotter you can also try writing the capital letter J.  Some of the months of the year start with a capital J eg January, June, July.

Numeracy

I have set a Sumdog challenge for you to try.  It is called Number Word challenge and it focuses on the learning the words that go with each number up to twenty, for example,

9 is written and spelled as nine

Some of the number words can be sounded out but others are sight words that you need to learn.  The challenge opens today at 9am and closes on Thursday at 3pm.

Good luck.

Mrs Currie

Good morning everyone! I hope yesterday went well for your learning. I have included the learning grid again for you here.

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

Here are some additional and support activities to extend your grid learning.

Home Learning Grid

How are you getting on with Number Talks? Can you name  any of the strategies you have used to work them out? Here are some ideas:

• Counting in ones
• Five wise (seeing a pattern of five) and counting on
• Counting in twos

Here is a link you can use to create your own Number Talks dice pattern challenge:

https://mathsbot.com/manipulatives/dice

If you are having any difficulty with any of the home learning activities please remember to ask your question in the comments section below. We will try to answer your question as soon as we are able to.

Literacy

This is our first week back after Easter. I loved the treasure hunt challenge from one of our previous blog posts.

Try and find something in your house that begins with each of the letters in Easter, such as eggs, armchair etc.

You could take a picture of your objects and send to the school email account or draw pictures and label them in your jotter.

Numeracy

I have set up a Sumdog Challenge for all of you. It focuses on number words up to 20, such as two, fourteen etc. It is open for you to complete from today and closes at 3pm on Thursday.

Your log in details are in your home learning bags and your jotters that you received before the school closed. You have until Friday to complete it. Good luck!

Mrs Currie

Learning Grid Week 3 (1)

Book Review Week 3

Missing Numbers Worksheet Week 3

Good morning everyone and welcome to Term 4.  I hope you all had a lovely time over the last two weeks enjoying some of the sunshine we had.

Please find above your weekly grid with learning activities for you to complete.  There is also another two attachments for you to use; one to write a book report as part of your reading activity, the other to support your numeracy learning.

Remember to check into the blog everyday to see the daily posts which will contain some additional activities to help support your learning from the grid.

Don’t forget you can get in touch with me by using the comments section on this blog post.  You can ask questions, share learning with me or even just say hello!  I love hearing from you and will respond as quickly as I can.

Have a lovely day and have fun!

Mrs Currie

Learning Grid Week 3

Fortune Teller

Spelling Activity Suggestions

Good morning everyone and welcome to Term 4.  I hope you all had a lovely time over the last two weeks enjoying some of the sunshine we had.

Please find above your weekly grid with learning activities for you to complete.  There are also two other attachments which go along with your grid.

Remember to check into the blog everyday to see the daily posts which will contain some additional activities to help support your learning from the grid.

Don’t forget you can get in touch with me by using the comments section on this blog post.  You can ask questions, share learning with me or even just say hello!  I love hearing from you and will respond as quickly as I can.

Have a lovely day and have fun!  I’m going to start the day with the Health and Wellbeing exercises, what will you choose to be your first activity?

Mrs Currie

Well done everyone for all the hard work over the last two weeks.  You have all shown fabulous resilience in the change to our learning environments.

Enjoy the next two weeks spending time with your families and resting up as well as staying safe.

Remember to log back in on Monday 20th April to access your new weekly learning grid.

Below I’ve included 2 links to activities all linked to Easter.  Have fun!

Mrs Currie

Easter Holiday Activities

Mini Vinnies Lockdown Appeal

Good morning everyone!  Well done to everyone who has completed the activities this week and who have logged onto Sumdog to complete the challenge (remember the challenge is live until 3pm today so it is not too late!)

Home Learning Grid

Well done on completing your second week of learning at home. I hope you have a restful break now for your Easter holidays.

Here is a fun dance you can try for some extra fitness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKhEZls2mQ

 Today is about reflecting on the week we have had.

This week we will focus on The Fist Of Five to assess our Learning 

Five fingers mean you have fully understood your task and feel confident with the skill, four fingers means you are nearly there perhaps just a little more practise needed, three fingers you needed some support but then were able to do it, two fingers you needed support to do most of it, one finger you needed support and would still need support in the future with this type of task).

If you score any piece of work below 4 fingers, think of a way you could practise or develop your understanding of the work you found tricky?

You can either show your score to someone at home or if you have recorded work in your jotter, draw a circle and put the number inside the circle with how you feel you got on with the task.

Literacy

How did you get on with your reading this week?

Try and re-read the newspaper report out loud and focus on reading with fluency. What strategies can you use to help you to read tricky words? For example, you might see a word within a word or use sounding out.

Numeracy

Please see below for the answers to your multiplication work. Mark your answers using tickled pink and green for growth.

Multiplication Sentence Answers

1. 3 x 4 = 12
2. 2 x 3 = 6
3. 4 x 2 = 8
4. 6 x 5 = 30
5. 5 x 3 = 15
6. 1 x 7 = 7

Equal Groups: Multiplication Sentence Answers

1. a
2. d
3. d
4. c
5. 2 x 4 = 8
6. 3 x 2 = 6

Have a lovely weekend and Easter fortnight (don’t eat too many Easter Eggs!! Yummy!!)

Mrs Currie